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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHLETTSTADT  , a

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town of Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace-
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Lorraine, on the
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Ill; 26 m . S. of Strassburg by the railway to Basel . Pop . (19o5) 9700 . It possesses two
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fine
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Roman Catholic churches, a
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Protestant church, numerous remains of its old walls and some quaint houses of the 15th and 16th centuries . It has a theatre, a municipal library, a gymnasium, and other educational establishments . The Roman Catholic churches are the
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cathedral church of St George, a fine
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Gothic
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building founded in the 13th century, and the church of St Fides, dating from the 11th century . Its
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industries comprise wire-
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drawing, tanning and saw-milling, and there is a considerable trade in wine, fruit and other agricultural produce . Schlettstadt is a place of very early origin . It was a royal residence in Carolingian times and became a
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free town of the
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Empire in the 13th century . In the 15th century it was the seat of a celebrated academy, founded by the humanist Rodolphus Agricola, which contributed not a little to the revival of learning in this
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part of Germany; Erasmus of
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Rotterdam was one of its students . In 1634 the town came into the possession of France, and it was afterwards fortified by
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Vauban .

It offered little resistance, however, to the Germans in 187o, and the fortifications have since been razed . The Hoh-Konigsburg, a

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great castle
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standing at an
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elevation of 2475 ft., was presented to the emperor William II. by the town of Schlettstadt in 1899, and was completely restored in 1908 . The site is first mentioned as bearing a castle in the 8th century . See Naumann, Die Eroberung von Schlettstadt (Berlin, 1876) ; and J . Geny, Die Reichstadt Schlettstadt 1490–1536 (
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Freiburg i . B . 1900) .

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